Good Morning!
Wow sounds like we are in for a bad weather weekend.
Our electricity goes out at the slightest wind or lightning with an entire weekend of ice I am hoping the electricity stays on.
If nothing more to be able to stay warm. I just finished cooking chicken and hamburgers in case we can't cook for a few days. Hopefully the weather news people are overreacting about this. But we have batteries, candles, food, icemeltingsalt, we dont have a fireplace so no wood.
Those of you from the north any other suggestions?
Pet food and litter if you have pets, extra blankets and clothing in case you lose power, and if you have once room you can shut off and stay in to conserve heat, that's good. ONLY if you lose power, though.
Do you have any of those little cans of Steno? Some people keep them on hand to keep food warm on a buffet table if they are the kind who entertain often.
I keep them on hand to warm up soup, or anything else I can juryrig into a pot above the heat for warming.
I have a rather 'elaborate' system. I use the stand for the colunder I use when making tomato juice to set the saucepan on. Under the colunder I have the Steno can (set in a tin pin pan) which I raise and lower by using different sized canned goods as the nonflabable base. A couple of bricks would work better, but I never remember to have the bricks where I can find them when I need them.
If you are on a private well, be sure to fill containers with water for drinking. And fill a bathtub full of water to use to manually flush your toilet.
Keep your bbq pit handy. It's a handy thing to keep ready.
Hot water and Dawn soap, mixed, applied to the walks, steps and garage area keeps ice & snow from sticking.